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Abstract
A dental patient presented herself with an apparent allergy to local anesthetics. Despite her ability to achieve deep trance, satisfactory dental anesthesia could not be maintained. Hypnosis was then used to treat the allergy. Local anesthesia combined with hypnosis was successfully employed to complete the patient's dentistry. Patch tests were taken before, during and after treatment. These suggest (1) an allergy was present at the outset; (2) the allergy persists but without symptoms; (3) the allergy is psychogenic in origin. Throughout the course of treatment there were definite signs of sexual problems and of a possible connection with the allergy. After successful treatment of the allergy, regression produced a possible causative psychic dental trauma. None of this material was explored or utilized in the treatment of the case. Such manipulation was felt to be unnecessary and outside the goal of successful dental treatment.